The Weighting Room Podcast
The Weighting Room Podcast
Fat Girl Therapy 43: Balancing Life's Laughs and Challenges
Ever thought about how avoiding a simple cough could lead to a rich discussion on aging and health? Join us for some laughs as we navigate the funny and frustrating aspects of growing older, sharing stories of sunburn mishaps, and the endless battle against gray hairs. We even dive into memorable moments with our partners, humorously capturing their first signs of aging, while reflecting on how busy life has made it hard to catch up in depth.
Have you ever wondered why managing a sourdough starter can feel as complicated as navigating weight loss programs? Listen as we chat about the ups and downs of medical weight management, from the financial commitments to the personal impacts of decisions like considering bariatric surgery. We also shed light on the mental health struggles many face, emphasizing the significance of seeking professional help and sharing our own experiences in this challenging journey.
Meal planning and fitness can feel like an uphill battle, but we've got tips and tricks that might just make it easier. From discussing the importance of portion control and dietary needs to contemplating live meal prep sessions for an interactive twist to our podcast, we cover it all. We also discuss maintaining a clean living space and the flexibility needed when life throws unexpected illnesses our way. Tune in for an engaging conversation that tackles the realities of managing health and well-being, with a blend of humor and heartfelt honesty.
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Disclaimer: We are not Medical professionals and all views and opinions are our own.
Let's see if I can get through this entire episode without coughing, All right cough tracker.
Speaker 2:Starting now. How are you, hi, chris? You guys start with saying hi, we can't just abruptly be in here, which is funny, because we actually are kind of just abruptly being in here, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm taking my vitamin D pills.
Speaker 2:Nice. My nurse just said I had to start taking vitamin D.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm like, really deficient and like my supplements made no difference before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was like she. My blood work came back and she's like you're super deficient in vitamin D and I'm like, well, that's good to know. So I have to take like four of the little tablets from Costco.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she told me just to take three for right now. But I'm like, but that's what I've been doing and there's been no improvement yeah now what we're trying to do is, she said take it with fat because it's more absorbent. We're only in the beginning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know. You know what you want to know. So, talking about vitamin D, I am currently only in a bra and shorts at the moment because I went to the splash pad this morning and I don't know if you can see. Oh no, my light, my light is. It has red in it right now, like my light does Hold on, let me switch my light to white. What?
Speaker 1:am I looking for Hold on, oh, switch my light to white. What am I looking for? Hold on, oh my god, your tan line. Oh my god, yeah, off one it uh it's.
Speaker 2:It's hurting a little bit and we literally just got back like an hour and a half ago, so it's only gonna get worse yeah, with that red light I couldn't see anything.
Speaker 1:I was actually I know that's your shirt because I was like what?
Speaker 2:am I looking for? No, this is yeah, this is just a one of my Amazon old sports bras that I'm like. This is probably the most comfortable thing because it's my entire upper back right now. Yeah, it's just burnt.
Speaker 1:I haven't been in the sun yet in the summer and, um, I think I'm gonna just burn like the second I step out there.
Speaker 1:I was going vampire mode yeah, I was gonna go for a walk today and then I talked myself out of it, partly to record this podcast, but also, um, I was just gonna go up to the store because I made an excuse, because I'm like, can you just walk up to the store and get bananas? And then I was like you're gonna go to the store for something you don't even need in this heat. And then I was like, call Lisa, so I'm yeah, but I'm doing floor exercises right now for physio, and then I'm going to try and do.
Speaker 2:I was like right this second, because like are you doing it under the table I'm clenching Are the floor?
Speaker 1:exercises in the room with us the booty buddy um oh yeah anything. Have you noticed this? This is something I've noticed over the last couple years. When I smile, the or when I'm talking, like it goes away now and then it comes back there's a wrinkle right here huh I said are you talking about your chin like?
Speaker 1:the thing I'm pointing to. I'm confirming. She's confirming because she sees other things that are not normal me, uh, no, it's just I. I never was very aware of wrinkles, but this one, and just so that everyone at home knows, it's just this weird vertical line on my chin I don't think it's weird.
Speaker 2:You probably think it's weird because you're just noticing it. I think it's just chris it.
Speaker 1:No for sure, like I, I'm just, I'm like, wow, now I'm gonna start noticing these things.
Speaker 2:I just want to stop noticing yeah, that's okay. The other day I realized, I realized, uh, the other day that it's not my mom's gray hair that makes her old, it's the fact that her daughter now has gray hair rams.
Speaker 1:I was with him when he got his first gray hair. But we were in the bathroom the other day and I was doing something and I was like, babe, what is that on your face? And I went to like, just pull it off. And it was the longest gray and the look, the, the look on his face when he looked in the mirror it was just this like I've aged 20 years and I'm like it's okay, don't worry about it, just pull it out. And then he's like, do you remember my first gray?
Speaker 2:hair and I'm like oh, here goes memory lane.
Speaker 1:But it was pretty funny when it happened, because he used to make fun of me being like oh, you're so close to 40, even like eight years ago okay, I'm closer to 30 than 40, and then it's just his thing that he does to me. So the minute he got his first gray hair, I took a photo. I will remember this forever. And then, when the second one Print a Polaroid put it on the wall. Here's I have about five photos of his first to fifth gray hair, and then I even posted the first one to Facebook because I'm like.
Speaker 1:You want to make fun of my age. I'm going to go postal. Oh my God. Yeah, I love it. I'm good at revenge. How's life?
Speaker 2:I feel like I haven't talked to you in forever, even though we still talk you and I have been talking, but we haven't been talking on here, not for any particular reason other than we've just been busy, like when Chris and I are talking, it's like while I'm driving home from work, kind of thing, like it it's we have that time, we don't have the. Let's sit down and take time out of our day time. What did we talk about last time? Am I the? Assholes, but before that, no, no, no Before that.
Speaker 1:Why don't I go to Buzzsprout and find out? That sounds great.
Speaker 2:Let's do that.
Speaker 1:I've been bugging the crap out of Heather. Every time something's going on with my sourdough starter I'm like is this normal? Am I doing this right? Should it smell like it? And I said I'm so sorry. And she's like ask away, it's fine. But I'm getting to the point where I'm like can you just do it for me?
Speaker 2:Can you?
Speaker 1:just mail me a starter. Uh, so we, we're talking about medical weight management program um plantar fasciitis. I put see, I don't know if it was my program that we were talking about what. No, we didn't. No, we didn't talk about your program, did we? We did we talked about.
Speaker 2:I talked right. I talked about how I went for my consultation and that I'll be starting a program, but I haven't really talked about it since. Has your started?
Speaker 1:wait. When you said started, I went immediately to my sourdough starter. So did you mean my weight loss program? I seriously it's on my mind all the time. I'm like, how is she doing?
Speaker 2:Her name's Willow. Yeah, yes, the weight loss management, because we both signed up basically at the same time for two completely different programs.
Speaker 1:There's nothing really like to start with it, it's just they're continually running, like right now they have probably a thing going on. So I signed up for a four-week program. That's on Mondays, so tomorrow I have the third. I missed last week, though, because they switched them to the Tuesday and then I forgot.
Speaker 1:And yeah, it's just so that kind of sucks. But to stay in the program every six months you have to have at least two four-week programs. They can't be the individual ones that add up to eight. It has two four-week programs. They can't be the individual ones that add up to eight. It has to be that.
Speaker 1:So right now I'm doing nutrition something and I think on the 26th something else starts, and then I have oh you know what? I didn't talk about this last time, but I will tell everyone after I say what I'm about to say. I signed up for the course again. It's just a one day, two hour thing, uh for bariatric and the medication. So what it tells you is all the different bariatric procedures and all the medications that you're going to have to take on a daily basis, cause they really want to drill it into your head that like if this is not something you can afford in life, you shouldn't do it because it's going to be expensive. However I look at it I've looked at the medications like it's cheaper than the cost of food.
Speaker 2:So um which is sad to say that was literally my thought when I was signing up my program. That's the conversation that I had with my mom. I was like it's this amount of money, but in the last week I and it's this amount of money every month. That's number two. Um, she muted her mic. But oh sorry. Number three cough. What the fuck was I saying? Oh, so I was looking at the cost and this is a monthly cost and I said to my mom I spent that like more than half of that in a week on takeout, like I'm doing it.
Speaker 1:Ram. Yeah, rams and I are takeout, got out of control again. My honestly, the depression's really hit. I will be honest, I have not reached out to a mental health professional yet because it's, it's daunting and I really like, I really want to do it, and then I find anything else to do other than that and I've been ignoring my cousin reaching out to me she was on this podcast in the first season because I know that she's, because I've reached out to her and told her that I'm at rock bottom for my mental health and, uh, she's followed up with me to be like so how's it going? So how's the search going?
Speaker 1:And I ignore those calls because I'm like I don't want to face it. So I'm dealing with that right now. Do you know what I mean when you like you have such a depressive episode and then, like it starts getting better, so you're like I don't need help, and then the next time comes and you're like, fuck, I should have had help yeah, I've been there that's what I'm going through and like I'm at the I'm not as depressed phase, but I have to tell myself, like you still have to, because next time's gonna hit even worse, and right now you feel like you're at rock bottom.
Speaker 1:So where's there to go right? Um, on the topic of the bariatric thing, I know, I'm sure anyone. If there's, if there is someone that's listened to all four years or whatever of us doing this. I'm sorry, uh, but it's back on the table, it's.
Speaker 2:I don't think you need to apologize at all for doing what you think is best for you, because before you that path was what was best for you. And then you grew like yeah, it was only a couple months, but we're still growing every day.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean, not by weight, growing mentally no, I totally know what you mean, but my brain couldn't let that one go.
Speaker 2:So at the time it was like I don't need this. Now, I need this instead, and you were just, I'm going to say feeding, and now it's going to make it even worse. Yeah, there it is.
Speaker 1:I ended up taking a sip.
Speaker 2:Either way. At that time it was what was best for you. And then a little time went by and it wasn't what was best for you. And now it was what was best for you. And then a little time went by and it wasn't what was best for you. And now it's what's best for you again. So I don't think you need to apologize for that, and if anybody is rolling their eyes, that's on them, that's not on you.
Speaker 1:For sure. I think it's also projection, because I'm rolling my eyes at myself. But so sorry. Four, five.
Speaker 2:I did it well. I muted. You didn't see me. This counter is horrible. Yeah, um, harper, you're not allowed to work the door at the bar, but she doesn't say five. So just so you know, because it had to do with that but also not people are gonna roll their eyes at this.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, so the bariatric thing, yeah, it's been on and off. The reason why it's on now is because, like I, I hear people's stories and I hear how they're miserable after they do it. Not all people. Everyone has different experiences and I know it's going to be different. However, I'm at this place in my life where I am so miserable and I'm not just talking about the depressive side, like I just hope that everyone out there knows I've done a lot of, a lot of internal like work myself, without a mental health professional, and I'm just trying to like, categorize things and figure out what's important to me, and so I really put a lot of thought into this. I haven't even been on social media for a. I am justifying. I can hear it in my voice as I'm trying to explain this. I can hear that I'm justifying.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I'm signed up for bariatric surgery again, but what my plan is is it takes about eight to 12 months to get on the preparedness course and then they ship you off to Richmond. So in that time, I would like to do my hundred percent of being there for myself to prepare me for the surgery, because I used to look at it as though I'm going to try really hard and see if I really need that surgery. No, I'm just going to put in the work because I still have to continue working after the surgery. I'm just very aware that I need that tool now and if I end up depressed after the surgery, it's no different than how I feel right now in my life. If I'm happier after the surgery, then awesome.
Speaker 1:But I'm just at that place in my life now and I'm going to stop looking at it as an either or like either I'm going to do 100% or have the surgery. I'm looking at it as I'm going to do 100, my 100 percent, and have the surgery Right and I can still back out, like as I start learning more information and maybe something clicks better with me, or who knows, who knows what can happen in a year's time. But I'm just, I'm not going to look at it as though I'm going to wait for that year and then start putting in the effort. Or you know what I mean. Like I'm just I have that year and then start putting in the effort. Or you know what I mean, like I'm just yeah, I have to frame it differently and it's just like that's a tool, the same way as people use ozempic or any other of those medications. Um, it's just a lot more detailed and involves knives.
Speaker 1:So I'm sorry, that was a really long tangent because I caught my. I'm seriously when I talk about these things. It's so. It's the same way as like weed's legal, now right, but you don't just like freely, always like admit it or like it's like you're not like showcasing it for everyone because it's still taboo.
Speaker 2:So it's like the same way that I view, um yeah weight loss surgery yeah, I think it's totally fine for somebody to have weight loss surgery.
Speaker 1:I think it's totally fine that anybody needs to do whatever they need to do, to do what they need to do, and the people closest to me that I know, like, have some of the same like values as I do, like I don't know my values matters, um, like they're like me in a different body. You know, that's what I'm trying to say, and I see that they are happier after it, and the people that I always see that are unhappy with it are people I don't know. I see in the comment sections I have seen some creators post about it, um, but it's like I don't know their life and I don't know how they're. You know what I mean. So it's I can't compare to that and I don't know if I'm gonna. I don't know anything.
Speaker 2:There's also a lot of people out there who took it as a cosmetic thing. You know what I mean. Like I don't know if you've noticed, but I've definitely noticed in like tv, media and everything. Ever since ozempic has come up, so many stars have lost weight, so many stars, and you just know that that's a path that they went down. But those who had weight loss surgery before as a cosmetic thing, like how things are with celebrities, you know what I mean. Like I mean there's some celebrities where it's like okay, you're plus size, you want to lose weight, sure, but there are other celebrities where it's like, you know it's a cosmetic thing you know what I mean?
Speaker 1:yeah, no, for sure.
Speaker 2:And I'm sure there's people out there who have had weight loss surgery as a cosmetic surgery, not a.
Speaker 1:I'm fighting for my life surgery and I feel like you're more likely to regret it and not want it if you were somebody who did it for cosmetic reasons yeah, and also people that might do it like that, go down to a different country or go over not necessarily down to another country to get it done, um, and haven't put in the work beforehand to know what they need to do or how the mental health help that they need.
Speaker 1:Because a lot of people still don't realize that mental health plays a big part in weight loss. Weight gain huge and I feel that if you don't put that work in, it's not going to be successful or you're going to hate it because you don't know the proper avenues you have to do or you didn't train your body before having the procedure to get used to it. I had my most recent appointment with the program. I made them aware of my mental health state so that I'm not put into the surgery or anything before I'm ready, because it's like I haven't reached out for help yet and it might look like I'm doing okay, but I needed them to be aware that I'm not, so that that's something that's I'm not attacking it right now. So I need them to be aware that like this is what I'm going through and I probably shouldn't have surgery until this is dealt with. But it's like it's my way of like being like hey.
Speaker 2:I can't tell you how many times I've gone to counseling over stuff that I've had going on in my life. And I've hit a low point and I go to a therapist or counselor and I'm like I need to talk to somebody, like I'm just really low and I would talk to them and then to your point, how it like yo-yos, like you're down and then you're back up and the next time I would talk to them I'm back up and they, they would just dismiss me. It would like okay, well, you seem to be doing better, so we can move on. But it's like I'm going to come back down, like, and you always hear from people. It's like, oh, you should talk, you should go to therapy, oh, you should talk to somebody. Like everybody should talk to somebody. You know what I mean, but it's like I have yet to talk to somebody who wanted to continue talking to me.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean and that's where I've always struggled with it my problem is trying to connect with someone because, like I also, for one thing I don't like really talking to people. I love talking to my friends, but also they can't take the burden of me talking to them about my mental health all the time. I want to find someone that I jive with and I don't want to wait until the fourth appointment to find out if I jive with them, because I don't want to have to find someone else and then repeat everything.
Speaker 1:And right now I'm in that because I've had so many appointments with the previous counselor but I realized I need someone that can possibly prescribe something if necessary. So talking to this person is not actually helping me. Um, it was helping me, but it wasn't helping me fully with the way that I needed. And so now my cousin, who is huge, like if you, I'm not offering her to anyone, but like, seriously, if I'm at the hospital I'm like where is she? Like I need her because she is the greatest medical advocate. I think even in that episode that we had with Shannon, um, she talked about medical advocacy and how important it is and, sorry, I just like lost my train of thought again. I hate being this sick. Um, oh fuck, what were?
Speaker 2:we talking about?
Speaker 1:uh, we were talking about therapy and how okay so I've reached out to her because I at one point four or five years ago called the suicide helpline in Burnaby, um, and it was awful and, uh, I would. It was my own experience and I'm saying that because I don't want to deter people from ever calming that line. I just think I had a very off situation when I eventually talked to a counselor two weeks later in my state. I couldn't believe it took that long. The guy was eating his lunch while on the phone with me because it was during COVID, so everything had to be done over the phone. And if I'm sure everyone knows on here, oh, yes, I remember you talking about this too.
Speaker 1:So I was talking to shannon within the last few weeks and then she said here, here's a number, call them and it's out of surrey. But again I called them and she's like you know they might not want to because you where you live. And I called them and they're like yeah, no, you have to go there. I'm like okay, but here's my situation and it was. I just don't feel like I want to go there again and it was just a too bad and I hate hearing that because it's like and I get like, it's not hurtful, but it's like all these, all this red tape.
Speaker 1:It's we talked about how important mental health is, but then there's all this red tape stopping me from going somewhere. It's like, no, I'm reaching out and like can you not tell that? This is like? I need your help right now.
Speaker 1:And another friend of mine. She just got put on meds in the last six months and she gave me a number and she's like call this place and I have that number. But then I'm like I don't want to go through this again, like I don't to call them, and then it's like some red tape again. So, anyway, that's where I'm at right now and I know I need to do this. It's just a struggle right now. Yeah, I get that and I feel like I won't be as depressed if I'm back to work. But that's my band-aid. I always say that. I've said that throughout the years where I'm like, once I'm back to work and I have my routine, I'm fine. It's just a distraction, is all it is. Yeah, that's why I?
Speaker 1:always had so many jobs to distract myself. Yeah, yeah, anyway. So that's where I'm at. I need to work on my mental health. I'm signed up for bariatric surgery. I'm still going to try and give a hundred percent of my hundred percent, not right. The second, um, and I'm still dealing with plantar fasciitis and I'm still off work.
Speaker 2:That's my update what does your 100 look like?
Speaker 1:right now, uh, doing the dishes. Um, my 100 right now would probably be going for at least a five to ten minute walk and that that sucks, like it sucks to hear that say that. Hear that words came out of your own mouth because the plantar fasciitis, um right, but I have to get over the fact that I just hate doing floor work and like that. It's just the. When I think of exercise, I think that you have to be making your heart pound and sweating and like running or hiking or doing fast movements slow things Piss me off. It's the same way. I don't know if you I think you saw my comment in someone's video, cause you liked it Slow walkers.
Speaker 2:oh my god okay.
Speaker 1:So I've always hated slow walkers, right, like. It's just like, do not get in front of me I. But then, as I've gotten older, it's like calm down, you know, smell the fucking flowers. It's not that, it's not that deep, right. However, if I'm in a rush to get to an appointment and someone, my pet peeve is someone coming out of a store and not looking and just and then stopping and it's like what are you doing?
Speaker 2:I am fine with slow walkers. I'm not fine with people who don't pay attention to their surroundings. That's the thing that drives me insane. So if anyone's else.
Speaker 1:There is obviously a little bit more context. The video was just someone posting. What's the one thing that pisses me off the most in the world is slow walkers just like get the f out of the way or or whatever. Pick up the pace. So anyway, he like is just really upset for slow walkers and things like that, which is the exact same way that I feel about floor floor work, because I feel like pick up the pace, get it moving. Like I don't need to. You know what I mean. Like just I hate it but I have to get used to it because also, as being older, hey, hip mobility, you should do those exercises. And also I used to like yoga. So when did this person become?
Speaker 2:because in my 20s I was doing hot yoga every day after work yeah, I think it's more a mindset of it's the negative side coming at you, saying you're not doing good enough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that is that's what it is, yeah, like, and it's amazing to feel that way. I don't know if you ever remember seeing this video, but it has to be. Like 10 years ago on Facebook or somewhere, or maybe YouTube, a video came up of a guy that was walking on a cane and he was in his living room and he was like I have these injuries and he was plus size. He's like I don't think I'll. I was told I won't be able to like move properly. And he started doing yoga in his living room and after a year of him doing it every day, his movement was so different, he lost so much weight and like I'm not even looking at it from the weight aspect, it's just it was noticeable and it's like his movement was amazing and it's like all those videos that are always telling us you put in the work, you do it every day and you're not going to see it right away, it's just you have it.
Speaker 1:It's so hard to think that way because it's not about seeing the results right away, it's just that how can I keep doing this for a year, like something that you're not necessarily fully enjoying? Yeah, but it's necessary. Those, those movements, for me are actually necessary. Yeah, I have to change my frame of mind and the way that I think of exercise or and my body, but ultimately, something I have really realized at this moment is that I have talked nonstop on this episode so far. Lisa, can you please take over?
Speaker 2:Hey everybody, I'm here too, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:I think it's because I've been trapped in my house for like two weeks. They said like you're probably my line of contact other than rems recently. Lisa, I'm still talking, but I think that Lisa does know that, because when she's at work I'm sending random thoughts that have nothing to do with each other and I think the last time I did it on the fifth message, I was like I'm aware you're at work right now and I'm just talking at you. No need to respond.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Accurate man, what have I got going on? Have you had another?
Speaker 1:appointment with your clinic.
Speaker 2:My, okay. So since us being together, I had my consultation. Hold on, I want to go get something. Okay, I am back. So when we recorded that other episode, it was just my consultation, so just me getting signed up and all that.
Speaker 2:So since then I have had my first official appointment where they did a full body scan. So they have the renfo, we have the renfo scale right, which, if anybody doesn't know the science behind the renfo stick, a renfo scale very basically described um, it sends like a shock that you don't feel, but like a wave through your one foot, through your leg, down your other leg into your other foot, and then the Renfro scale takes your weight and body fat and all of that stuff from there and distributes it, estimates what the rest of your body is like. So on the Renfro scale it says that I am 65% body fat. This scan that they do there's like handlebars that you hold on to, so it sends the shock through your arms and down your body into your legs, so it's a full body, it's not just your legs.
Speaker 2:And then estimating, so with that, two weeks ago, uh, my weight was 338 pounds and my weigh-in was at two, 14 in the afternoon, so like I'd already had lunch and all that stuff. Mi is 48.79 and my body fat percentage is 54.64. So it's a 10% difference between the Renfro scale with this. The other thing that it does that I love is the skeletal muscle mass, which this is also on the Renfro scale, but it's way cooler on this because this also when it does the shock it sorry, there's a shadow on my thing that I don't know where it's coming from and it kind of looks like a skeleton and it's freaking me out. Oh, it's just the lamp because of the little lights. It's a shadow for each.
Speaker 2:As you're talking about your bones. That's what it is. Oh weird, Actually it's muscle.
Speaker 1:I don't know why it's called skeletal, but anyways.
Speaker 2:So my total skeletal muscle mass is 76.65 pounds, so I have just under 77 pounds of muscle in my body. So of that 338 pounds, 77 of it is muscle. That's cool. My right leg is 19.39 pounds of muscle, of muscle, and my left leg is 21.18 pounds of muscle. Oh wow, 40 pounds of my weight is just my legs, which is insane. That's neat, though, and that's not like that's just the muscle in my legs and like.
Speaker 1:Well, that just shows how much you love the leg press.
Speaker 2:Right, I know right. So she did the scan and she's like damn, like you've got legs.
Speaker 1:I'm like I know.
Speaker 2:So I thought that was the coolest part of the scan, because it's not like it's not just look at the fat on you, it's like look at everything on you. The other thing that came up was how my body is holding on to water weight a lot, so I need to increase my water because it's basically your body entering a dehydration mode and trying to hold on to as much water as it can. So I've been drinking water like crazy, basically the only thing I drink now.
Speaker 1:Is there other things that you can do for that? Is there anything with regarding sodium that affects that?
Speaker 2:That's what I've heard. But because sodium didn't come high in my blood pressure or in my blood work. Um, that's how they're, that's how they know it's a dehydration thing.
Speaker 1:Okay. So it's just just pick up the pace of your water and you drink.
Speaker 2:You do drink quite a bit of water, like I do. But keep in mind I when I'm drinking a liter of water, it's while I'm at the gym, so my body is just replenishing that water like I'm not drinking extra the water, that is just water. So I have been drinking. Uh, I've added neo, like basically is my biggest thing. I've added a lemonade and then another flavor to basically like make it like a juice like thing. So that is not just water but honestly, um, it's. It's been a lot easier to just drink water lately because. So the other part of this uh program is I have started taking Saxenda. I have started taking Saxenda. Saxenda is an everyday injection that's similar to Ozempic. I noticed a huge difference instantly and because I don't have much of an appetite, I don't really feel like drinking anything else, so when I'm thirsty I just drink water. So for me it kind of just came hand in hand with my medication, so it didn't really become a thing like this right now is just lemonade meal and strawberry watermelon meal.
Speaker 1:I like that cup. I think I have a green one like it.
Speaker 2:So yeah, and I have, I'm going to. Yeah, I have lost five pounds just since starting the medication last week.
Speaker 1:Wow, and drinking water so I'm sure it's water weight how are you finding it, though, like? Are you getting any of the side effects? You feel nauseous at all.
Speaker 2:I've had some nausea, but not uncontrollable nausea, like it doesn't make me like tap out for the day or anything like that. Um, it's just been some nausea, um, but I'm also still just on the first dose. I don't know if they're going to increase my dose tomorrow or what the plan is going to be with that um, but at this point in time it's just been slight nausea here and there and honestly I really only have it if I've eaten like I can tell I ate too much the day before yeah, mine is really triggered by water, like being dehydrated.
Speaker 1:Uh, it's ramped up, like especially right now being sick because I'm coughing so much every morning. I am uncontrollably like gagging for like 10 minutes and I think it's ramped up because I'm so dehydrated.
Speaker 1:So I'm trying to get water in, um, but I noticed, like rams knows this, because if I'm sitting down and I'm like rams, I am, I can't move, I'm so dizzy. They'll get me a glass of water and it helps within five minutes. Oh, um, so that is something I've noticed. To like combat that, but the nausea is it can be not debilitating. I have always been able to go do things, but for that, like first five minutes, like sometimes you feel like you're going to pass it on the floor. It's so bad, wow, anyway, I'm just like telling you like this, just so that, like, if it does ramp up, like I don't think you're ever going to have like days where, like you can't do anything because the nausea is so bad. But just try and focus on, like go through the three things. Have I drank water recently? Have I had a snack? Or like when was the last time I ate? Um, right, it's I, like I've been up since one.
Speaker 1:Yesterday I made banana bread. I've had three slices. I had three slices of banana bread throughout the day and a grilled cheese with an egg on it. That was all I ate yesterday. And didn't realize, rams, we didn't have dinner last night. I was out of it. Like anyway, I know I that's what I thought about at 1am, cause I had really grumble pains. So my stomach was telling me, hey, you're hungry. And I still ignored it. And it's now almost noon and I still haven't ate. Anything like this is why it's so important to have like timers or routine, because even if you're not hungry, stick a spoonful of cottage cheese in your mouth so that your system at least has something. So that's what I have on on standby is yogurt, cottage cheese and peanut butter too, because one spoonful of those things helps me so much. Yeah, yeah, anyway, sorry, talking about me again it's okay.
Speaker 2:Um, so, yeah, we'll find out tomorrow if there's going to be a change in my medication. Um, overall, though, honestly the biggest thing that this medication has made me realize is it wasn't that I was hungry all the time, it's that I had an appetite all the time, like there's a huge difference between your appetite and actually feeling hungry. And after I realized that it made way more sense of when I was always so full, why I continued eating, because my appetite was still there. My appetite wanted me to keep eating, but it was like literally the day I started taking this, my body was like no more appetite. It does. Who cares what you put in your body, it's just food. And it was just wild that it went from that to that.
Speaker 2:And now, when it comes to eating, like I used to struggle staying at the 2000 calorie mark and they're not keeping track of calories, but I'm just seeing it when I'm tracking my food kind of thing, cause they still want you to keep track of your food because they're very much, like they're talking about nutritious food.
Speaker 2:So, like, like, yeah, you can have the processed food in moderation, but like you should be mostly having like three meals in the week should include fish and a plant-based meal in the week and like, get getting true nutrients in your body. The other thing is um portioning your meals so, like your, the palm of your hand is protein, the your the face of your fingers is your carbs and then a whole hand of vegetables. So, like, half the time I'm using, like, either harper's plate or the small plates to eat something. I'm not using the big plates or the big bowls or anything like that anymore. Um, mind you, this has just been over the last week too. Like just taking this stuff over the last week. Um, but yeah, so smaller portions, but I'm still eating whatever it is that I want to eat.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean?
Speaker 2:yeah, for sure so, um, but in that I because I'm still tracking for that most days, like yesterday, wildly, I still had 900 calories left in the day and I had a brownie batter blizzard like how, like you know what I mean versus like two weeks ago, there's like I would struggle to be in the 2000 ish marks, like I was going over by a thousand some days, 2000 calories, like, and now all of a sudden it's like I just don't care. Yeah, it's wild that something like that exists I hear you there is.
Speaker 1:I wonder what it's going to be like on sexenda, because for me, you know what you totally do is have another ozempic episode like a recap of how have. How have you like a year later like check in in wait, was it last year?
Speaker 2:Yeah, last year. Okay, it was earlier last year, though, like in March.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like, have a few of them back, and if there's anyone that doesn't want to come back or anything like, maybe we can add a couple like other people. But now that you're on Saxenda, maybe it'll be a bit different. Also, I would want to wait until you've been on it for a couple months. Uh, wait, sorry, saxenda, I wonder if you're gonna have the same feeling that I get on Saxenda, but I'm guessing not, since I take a shot once a week. When do I do that?
Speaker 1:oh, today, sundays, by Friday, yeah, friday, I want to eat the entire fridge and it's hard for me to, um, not control to hit that hunger like you know, like I can't, like I'll have an entire meal and then go I need more, I need, I need whatever random eating and I can't stop and I have to control myself. Um, but that's normally ends up being our takeout and then I kind of binge, like Lisa put it this you know how my body's been feeling on pizza, and the last two times even Ram's been like are you sure? I'm like let's get pizza because I just wanted to and I said I'm ready for the next two days of not being able to really move. Yeah, so it's like, yeah because it's the appetite.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get it, yeah that hunger really, as but the last two weeks I don't know what it is, uh, it hasn't, but then that nausea has been really picking up, so maybe it's because I'm sick the last, what was it?
Speaker 2:two, the first two days that I was taking it, by dinner time I did start feeling a little snacky, um, but I think that was just my body going into routine. I don't think it was the medication not working, because after I pushed through that, or if I had just a couple bites of something, I was fine afterwards.
Speaker 1:With Sixenda? Do they go on a tiered system Like, do they? Are they going to bump you up in your milligram? Okay, so if it's not?
Speaker 2:working like if this if this dose doesn't work out, then they gonna up it.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, but I don't have to get all the way up to three so I feel like maybe that's why people always say like that they experience more weight loss with things like sexenda than they do with ozempic, because like you're taking it every day, so then like that's going to help your appetite every day, whereas with ozempic it's like you need to then give yourself another shot.
Speaker 2:So I did like what sarah did.
Speaker 1:Sarah said that she had the boost. So I brought that up to the clinic, uh, and I said this is something that someone else does. Am I like, am I allowed to do this? And they're like well, you just figure out what works for you. So if, like, you can try it, and if that works for you and I'm like, okay, I just there's certain things that I'm lenient on, but there's other things that I'm like, no, there is clear cut lines of what is allowed and not allowed with this prescription and if it hasn't been, and I don't get, I don't care that sarah does it for like I mean I do, but her doctor or whoever might have different information.
Speaker 1:Or maybe they don't have that information, maybe they're using Sarah as a guinea pig, I don't know. And unless my doctor says, yeah, you can do that, that is an okay thing to do, meaning there's been studies or something on it, I can't. So right now they're like, yeah, you can do it, like if it works for you, it works. I'm like, but I don't know, and am I screwing myself up by doing that? So, anyway, I haven't done it because I'm like, even though Sarah's doing it and she is comfortable with it and it's working for her, I'm so scared because it's like I'm now taking that into my own hands and I don't. I'm not educated. That's a chemical, I'm not educated on that. Yeah, anyway, sorry. So that gives me anxiety. So I'm not doing it, that's fair.
Speaker 2:What if you took the like? I mean, it's you playing around with your medication? If they're saying go for it, I say go for it personally. But I would take what your dose is and divide it by however many days there are, and then that's a day dose. You know what I mean, but see, ozempic doesn't, but don't take it every day no, I know, but I just don't think that goes up.
Speaker 1:It works like that because it's just like it. It's a slow release, whereas like with like six, and I don't know, by the way, anyone that's listening to this. Again, I'm not educated on it, I'm just going by what I might know.
Speaker 1:Like Ozempic is a slow release in your system. That's why it's once a week, but Saxenda is a get it now. So that's why I'm worried, because even with the rules of Ozempic like if you miss a dose, then you um try and take it at the earliest possible, but then if it's within five days of your next dose, then just wait, and then so because there's those like day limitations that's what freaks me out. And then trying to get that information from my doctor rather than a pharmacist it's just like I don't fully trust doctors anymore, especially with the misdiagnosis like it was your pharmacist that said no, no it wasn't.
Speaker 1:I was actually talking to the doctor in this, and it was in that meeting that I realized I need to have this discussion with a pharmacist. Right, fair, fair, yeah, anyway, sorry me again.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's okay. I that's yeah, I've the medication's working um.
Speaker 1:I'm yeah, that's it, would you ever be interested in going back to like meal prep Sundays or something see, I want to, but it's like I really don't know what my meals are going to look like.
Speaker 2:last week I was working from home, so, like how I said, the first couple days it was like I was starting to feel snacky in the evening, so I was taking my injection later in the day, like I was doing it around 10, 11 kind of thing. But now I'm going back to the office this week. So today I actually took it for the first time around eight o'clock and I have to like actually push it back to like take it at like six in the morning. So I'm still playing with that. Um, when it comes to the meal prep thing, I want to say yes, but at the same time it's so weird because, like breakfast, I only have two bites of breakfast but, like on this prescription, like I'm not interested in breakfast at all, lunch is a little bit bigger dinner.
Speaker 2:I had half a pork chop yesterday for dinner, less than half a pork chop, because my mom had half the pork chop. I gave maybe a little bit of that half to Harper and then I ate the rest of the pork chop, the part with the bone. So I had maybe a quarter of a pork chop yesterday with a half a probably, honestly, about two tablespoons of potato salad and a skewer of vegetables and was fine afterwards. But we still got ice cream later in the day because I had enough calories for it and I was like hell yeah, but you know what I mean. Like it's like at that point when I'm meal prepping for a scoop of potato salad, it's like no for sure.
Speaker 1:so it's more meal planning I think I need to do at this point so what my plan is is I'm going to be going to the dollar store wherever, and you know, like regular, like a sandwich style takeout container, yeah, so it's like a square, like about this big. I'm sorry that everyone at home that can't see it um, it's like three times the size of a coaster, I don't know it's a standard.
Speaker 2:It's the standard square. You put a sandwich in it.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I want to get one about half the size or maybe a third of the size, and I want to and a little bit deeper, and I want to start meal prepping, like two weeks worth of meals that fit into those. So the meals that I'm thinking of are going to be like butter chicken, for example, but on cauliflower rice, since cauliflower rice would freeze better, I'm going to make a chili batch and then I want to make like a like a skewer type thing, like what you were just saying, like a chicken, something Mediterranean with those are my new obsession right now.
Speaker 2:We made chicken skewers. Sorry, I'm taking it back for a second. We made chicken skewers last Monday, um, when we had a couple friends over and they were so flipping good and it was the vegetables I was obsessed with. So yesterday, when we were having pork chops, we just put the vegetables on the skewer. So now I'm obsessed with barbecued vegetables. I will be having those all season.
Speaker 1:I love barbecue vegetables it, I'm just having a barbecue or even just like an outdoor space. So by making those like, then every day I can just like plop it out of the freezer and like let it defrost and then just microwave it and go, and I just feel like that'll be easier for me because for one it's going to be pre-portioned into a very small portion. Two, like, let's say, I want rice with the chili instead. Well, I can just make just the rice that day and then have the chili with it, and I just think that, like having two weeks worth of meals for one, they're not going to get freezer burnt in within two weeks and I don't have to think like every day I want something different.
Speaker 1:First thing in the morning. Sometimes I want nothing. For lunch it's normally veggies or a sandwich or something like simple, it's dinner. That's complicated for me. So if I do that, especially on work days, then it's just like hey, rams, I'm going to make Rams like a bit bigger ones. It's just that I want them proportionate a certain way for me and I think that'll be great. So I'm thinking about doing that on Sundays. And the um, and I think that'll be great. So I'm thinking about doing that on Sundays. And the reason I was asking if you ever want to be part of that and even like time on, is that we can kind of have like live episodes of the podcast where we're doing meal prep and stuff so um it's just an idea.
Speaker 1:Put it in your head if you ever feel like doing that again, because I know we used to meal prep a lot and we would go live and then it was just like we're done.
Speaker 2:My Sunday evenings has, honestly, not so much of the meal prep has turned into reset for the week. So getting my kitchen spotless, getting my living room spotless, vacuuming all that stuff, which hey, today's Sunday. So if you want to go live with me later while I'm doing all that.
Speaker 1:Also think about it. Sundays we actually normally record later, so that's true. We should maybe start getting used to recording at this time on her nap time, like that. That should just be our time now, because it also really helps for editing, because then I have like all night to think about it, and tomorrow, and just so that people at home know sometimes that's not even enough and I go.
Speaker 1:No episode this, yeah, it happens yeah, but I mean, we didn't have an episode last week because Rams and I today is Sunday, not yesterday, but last Saturday Rams and I I woke up and I'm like crap, I'm sick, and I thought it was the AC. And then Rams got up and I'm like, hey, I'm sick, he's like me too. And it just came so hard at for Rams. And the next day I felt like I was like, oh, I'm getting better, and so I was able to do stuff. And then the next day it hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm like I'm done. I the like. I was like, oh, I'm getting better, and so I was able to do stuff, and then the next day it hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm like I'm done.
Speaker 2:The reason I went is because I had to have a conversation with my husband and I know there are other men out here who are like this and I'll be like, babe, I don't feel good. And he'll be like me too. And I'm like you cannot be sick when I'm sick, Meanwhile, like fast forward. Three weeks later he'll be like oh, I really don't feel good and I'm like oh, babe, is there anything I can do? Like, are you feeling okay? Blah, blah, blah. And then two weeks later, I'm like oh, I'm not feeling well, and Brandon's like me too. I'm like it on him the other day, because I was like anymore and I saw a tiktok about it where somebody was like I don't feel good and their husband is like oh yeah, I think I have what you're having, and they were like a period.
Speaker 1:Rams is actually really good for that. If I'm saying I'm not sick, he does go. Is there anything I can get you? But um, when last Saturday, when I was like I'm sick and his response was oh my god, me too, my reaction was fully like what? Because Rams doesn't get sick, my roommate and.
Speaker 1:I like we, when a month before COVID lockdowns happened, we got so sick we're pretty sure we had covid. It was the worst sickness I've ever had in my life. I ended up with a chest infection. He ended up with pneumonia. Rams is sitting there like I'm great. Everyone I mean everyone we had come into contact with the two days before got insanely sick as well. So I was just like I hate you and within the last four years have you even been sick once in the last four years? He actually remembered he's like yeah, in December, like I'm like I'm sick every month. I guess that says something about me and my health, but you know and that's why we're here.
Speaker 2:So the only other thing I wanted to talk about was the gym, because I still have been running at the gym and I have now officially decided that if cause I'm doing that stage interval running, so like I'm doing stage one, I just started doing stage two this week. So I have told myself, if I am on stage three by the second week of August no, second last week of August I'm going to sign up for a run in December. That is awesome. It's a three K Santa run. So you go three K and you dress as Santa and you do the run and it's the run. That's like before a Santa Claus parade.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. Like, like, are you gonna actually dress up like santa, like, or can?
Speaker 2:you be mrs claus or anything. It's part of your register, like they give you the santa suit as part of your registry it's cool, that's cool yeah so and brandon said he's going to sign up with me. Wow, yeah. So we're like okay, we're gonna take the stroller and gonna go and yeah, are you gonna like?
Speaker 1:how? How? What to what age do kids use strollers?
Speaker 2:it's not really an age thing as much as it is a parents not wanting to carry yeah, like I mean, we only use the stroller when we're going to the mall, and it's more to put stuff in it. She just wants to walk around the mall.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say I can totally see you just like rocking a running stroller um.
Speaker 2:So my friend has a running stroller and she hasn't been using it, so I actually just asked her today if I could use it and she said yeah, I was like I can give you money and she's like no, I'm just gonna give it to you.
Speaker 2:So and there is a park nearby that is 750 meters away, so there and back is just over 1.5 kilometers. So, uh, I've got that mapped out. Now, the run track of like the actual santa run does have like a couple big hills on it, so but yeah, I'm, that's where I'm at. That's so cool, I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1:that's so. Thank'm at. That's so cool. I'm so proud of you. That's so cool. Thank you, I'm excited. Introduce us into the cards, because I'm going to have to cut that part out, sorry.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's fine, we're wrapping up. Yeah, we're wrapping up. In case anybody was wondering, we're going to wrap up, here is our affirmation.
Speaker 1:Chris, tell me when to stop stop that was an extra one, so this one is. It was like extra yeah yeah, it was out still.
Speaker 2:Okay, here we go ready. Listen, bitch, blurt out your ideas or hold them back and see what doesn't happen.
Speaker 1:Oh, see when I mute in my the light up water bottle is already invented it can be a new thing, like it beeps at you until you drink it, so it's annoying. I think it would turn that off, no you.
Speaker 2:Literally, I snooze my alarm enough, as it is Like I don't need a water bottle that I snooze.
Speaker 1:So people out there just have a context of this. I'm always thinking of inventions and I always send them to Lisa so that she can just send me the link of it already existing.
Speaker 2:The amount of time. She's like what about this? And I'm like that's a thing yeah.
Speaker 1:There's super late night thoughts where I'm like hey, totally random, no, this bursts in my bubbles left, right and center.
Speaker 2:Sorry, I would say let's set goals, but I have my appointment tomorrow and I feel like I've got enough. Oh, that's the final thing too. With that appointment, my first goal is to get under 50% body fat. Well, there, you have a goal. That's 4% right now. My goal. I'm actually going. You have a goal that's four percent right now my goal.
Speaker 1:I'm actually going to have a goal this week. I'm going to do the booty buddy workout at least twice. Oh nice, maybe today I'm already. I'm already like shit, I might cut that out of the podcast. No, I'm good, I'll do it all right well, thanks for hanging out, yeah until next time, bye, bye yay, oh man.